by Jan Bear | Feb 5, 2004 | Uncategorized
Good humor wins a point This from Teresa Nielsen Hayden, the Tor editor who blogged on the rejection reactions earlier this week. She reports in her blog Making Light: Nudge note that a writer sent an anniversary card to her manuscript asking how it was enjoying the...
by Jan Bear | Feb 5, 2004 | Uncategorized
It’s ironic, after my post a couple of days ago about rejections, that I received one today, from the imprint of a major publisher, saying, “No, but . . . .” It’s amazing what a difference there is between “yes, but . . .” and...
by Jan Bear | Feb 4, 2004 | Uncategorized
The Onion Dome been given a big responsibility by the folks over at the Christianity Today weblog: As many Eastern Orthodox readers often point out, any time Weblog notes a news item on an Orthodox church, Weblog doesn’t know much beyond the basics of Eastern...
by Jan Bear | Feb 4, 2004 | Uncategorized
I went to see David Farris this evening, author of Lie Still, a literary suspense novel. (Since it was at Powell’s Books in downtown Portland, I thought it only appropriate to link to Powell’s rather than Amazon.) He said he worked on this, his first...
by Jan Bear | Feb 4, 2004 | Uncategorized
The new Onion Dome is posted. We’ve got a new writer this week, Alexander Lebedeff, Our Man in Moscow, who has discovered a new twist on adolescent rebellion. In the meantime, our Intrepid Editor reprises a piece about way cool bumper stickers, Marie Moffitt...